TABS and HOW to USE them

It would be easier to answer your questions if you weren't insane.

Tabs are just characters. You represent the tab with the "\t" escape. For example, this prints a tab to standard output:

System.out.print("\t");

However, that code is pretty much worthless. Your question is about something so trivial that you're either completely incompetent, or more likely, you're not describing your actual issue very well.

Tabs are used to make columned output on a plain terminal, or as a possible separator between fields in a textual data file. In the olden days, back when I was using Perl 4, we used tabs a lot to make data structures beyond that which Perl4 could otherwise easily handle, but Perl5 has made that unnecessary. You don't use tabs a whole lot in Java because you have much better ways to create complex data structures, and you tend not to use tab-delimited files much in Java, although I suppose it happens occasionally.

paulcwa at 2007-7-21 22:01:16 >

Then that's what you should have asked, instead of wasting everyone's time with vagueness.

Also you should probably have asked on a forum about GUIs, like the Swing forum.

There's a Swing widget called JTabbedPane. Here's a tutorial:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/tabbedpane.html

Any further questions about that class should be asked on the Swing forum.

May I also suggest waiting until the drugs wear off before trying to program again.

paulcwa at 2007-7-21 22:01:16 >

public class new2 extends JPanel {

public new2() {

setLayout(new BorderLayout());

JTabbedPane tabbedPane = new JTabbedPane();

String tabs[] = { "One" };

for (int i = 0; i < tabs.length; i++) {

tabbedPane.addTab(tabs[i], createPane(tabs[i]));

}

add(tabbedPane, BorderLayout.CENTER);

}

JPanel createPane(String s) {

JPanel p = new JPanel();

return p;

}

public static void main(String[] args) {

JFrame frame = new JFrame("");

frame.addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter() {

{

}

});

frame.getContentPane().add(new new2());

frame.setSize(200, 100);

frame.setVisible(true);

}

}

hello.everyonea at 2007-7-21 22:01:26 >

It appears that you can add any kind of component you like to a tabbed pane's internal panels. So if you want to add a single button, then add a button. If you want to add multiple things to a single tabbed pane's internal panel, then create and add a panel and then add things to that panel.

Anyway, didn't I tell you to ask on the Swing forum?

paulcwa at 2007-7-21 22:01:26 >